In order to understand the phenomenon of the Phantom, you have to put yourself back in the period in which "he" emerged. It's the mid-1970s, and a lot of the most compelling rock stars of the previous ten years have been dropping like flies -- Hendrix, Joplin, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, etc. Basically, rock is mellowing out, except for a few arena acts, but for everyone who's getting off on Yes and ELP, as well as the surviving Allman Brothers, there are a lot of people who think the '70s suck.
The result was the first real effort to market rock music's "ghost bands," follow...